Beyond Revenge (The Ransom Series) by Douglas A.T

Author:Douglas, A.T. [Douglas, A.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: A.T. Douglas
Published: 2014-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

16

Her Beauty

∞

My eyes had never seen

that which is true beauty.

So fragile, yet serene and content.

Out there and unafraid.

Perfection.

Inward and outward.

Mind and body.

In all things so real,

yet simultaneously impossible.

She is and will remain to me

beyond beautiful.

∞

The darkness of night is well upon us, but we continue through the mountains. We follow a winding dirt road, endless and teasing, through the valleys.

It’s difficult to know that Morgan is somewhere in these woods but remains unseen. She is well within my reach, yet I am blind to her. I can almost hear her screaming for me, her sounds all around me, and I have no direction how to find her.

It’s maddening.

My fingers tap nervously on the steering wheel as I drive the car as fast as I can take it without running off the swerving road. Robert sits next to me quietly. The deflation in spirit between us is disheartening, but we aren’t giving up. Not tonight. Not ever.

A curve in the road comes up too quickly for my speed, and I jerk the steering wheel to keep the car from running into a ditch. Adrenaline shoots through me, but I readjust and slow down, my senses now hyperaware and focused on the road ahead.

“You okay? Not falling asleep, are you?” Robert asks with concern.

I glance at him. In the glow of the lights from the dashboard, he looks a bit terrified. I’m about to apologize to him for my wild driving when my eyes turn back to the road and I see it.

A smaller dirt road ahead curves off up the hill in a perfect spotlight from the car’s headlights. It has to be the turnoff we’ve been looking for in this part of the mountains.

A chill runs through me, and my nerves peak again. I immediately slow down and take the dirt road, turning off the headlights so that only the yellow glow from the parking lights illuminate our slow climb up the hill.

“I don’t want to get my hopes up again,” I say quietly, as if whoever is at the end of this road may hear me.

Robert shifts around in the seat next to me, readying his weapon and double-checking his gear. “There’s nothing wrong with hope.”

Hope. I suddenly love that word and want to embrace it fully, to pour every ounce of my broken soul into it and let it repair me.

The moment I see the light from a building in the distance, I take in a mental image of the road in front of me and cut the parking lights completely. The light of the moon through the break between the trees for the road is just barely enough to guide me to where it opens up in an area surrounding the cabin. I stop the car just before it and kill the engine.

As I step out of the car, I realize we’re much closer to the cabin than I’d ideally want us to be for an approach to evaluate the scene. The dirt road was too narrow though, there being no turnoffs or wide shoulders for turning around.

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